1967 PJS Sussex Weekend
July 1st and 2nd 1967 a weekend in Sussex starts with Pauline arriving at Maybury in her 1961 Morris Minor saloon 8058NK; busy main road maybe A.30; picnic near Fittleworth (cross not identified).0.45 seaside at Atherington between Bognor and Littlehampton; 1.05 one night at Cranmore Farm, Heyshott near Midhurst, the house, cricket practice and garden flowers. 2.05 Cowdray Park, pond and ducks; 2.52 ruins of Cowdray House; 3.00 view from South Downs; 3.20 sailing at Itchenor and 3.55 rowing on the Thames at dusk.
1968 PJS Rye + Beer
Two separate trips by Peter and Pauline, the first to Rye appears to be part of a St.Albans YHA Group weekend at Guestling when on 3rd March 1968 we walked from Cliff End by Winchelsea to Rye where the filming was done.
Start is old stone gateway, streets, church and views maybe from the church tower.
1.00 Rye Castle; 1.10 shop window; 1.16 cobbled street; 1.44 Church with clock which has the “Quarter Boys” to strike each quarter; 2.32 bottom of Mermaid Street.
Second trip was for 5 days to Dorset and East Devon from 12th October 1968. 2.52 lunch among huge puddles at Crookham Common including Pauline at car window; 3.16 driving along an unknown street; 3.20 Peter on gate; 3.22 Beer, sunset and the Youth Hostel (wardens Mr and Mrs Beer); 3.40 Fuchsia; 3.46 views down to Beer beach and along the cliffs to Seaton while walking out to Beer Head.
PJS Cornwall 1980
Peter, Pauline and Richard had booked with Mrs Thomas at Penbryn for the fourth time but two weeks before the holiday she rang to say she could not have any visitors because her mother was ill. We found a farmhouse Trevinnick two miles inland from Port Isaac able to accommodate us. It appears to have been a windy holiday.
0.00 Farm gate and cows. 0.08 farm lane with Richard walking ahead on one of Peter and his before breakfast walks. 0.35 Richard comes out of front door. 0.38 Trevose Head: poppies, rough sea, lighthouse. 1.26 Fulmar and Herring gull in flight. 1.46 Pauline and Richard at stile and on way to beach. 1.58 Teatime at the car Morris Minor MNO 828 J the first of three Teal Blue Travellers.
2.10 Lanhydrock House (N.T) near Bodmin.
2.22 Boscastle for the rest of the film (before the floods). Pixie House, walk by harbour, boats. 3.12 harbour mouth then views back over the harbour to the village. 3.44 Richard amused by a chaffinch on the picnic table.
PJS Penbryn 1981
Peter, Pauline and Richard return to Penbryn for their June holiday.
0.00 St.Govan’s Chapel on the south coast of Pembrokeshire and south of Pembroke, on Peter’s Birthday. Picnic by car; Herring Gull and Jackdaw; they walk down the steep path to the Chapel halfway down the cliff. 0.42 Views of the cliffs there.
0.49 The family visits their favourite beach, Penbryn and are seen walking down the lane to the beach past the cafe, olearia and mallow in flower, horse, donkey and calves in the field. 1.45 Views both ways along the beach. 1.56 Excavations begin to divert the stream and create a large paddling pool, Peter with the borrowed garden spade; 3.04 Richard has a splash in the edge of the sea; 3.18 enjoying the pool.
3.24 Llangrannog walk up the cliff path to the east, 3.38 meeting a friendly cat, 3.45 views of the headland Ynys Lochtyn, 3.59 sun sparkling on the sea.
1968 PJS October West Dorset
Peter and Pauline on two visits to Dorset, first October 14 to 18th 1968 staying at Beer Youth Hostel.
The film starts at the familiar beach at Eype, hard boiled egg for lunch and a view of the Eypes Mouth Hotel (formerly Bonville). 0.45 Golf at West Bay probably Pauline’s first attempt at the game, view down to West Bay, Peter drives then Pauline (golf ball not the car). 1.20 next day at Lyme Regis G.C. with several shots of Peter playing (did he really bend that low when putting?). 2.12 Charmouth beach and gulls. 2.43 The Maybury cat unfortunately mostly rather dark. 3.12 roses. 3.30 visit to Auntie Gladys on 7 and 8th December walking on the beach and A.G’s dog.
1979 PJS Penbryn
This shows Peter, Pauline and Richard (aged 5 ¾) on their third holiday at the delightful little farm Penbont, Penbryn on the Cardiganshire (sorry Ceredigion) coast run by Glyn and Frances Thomas.
It starts with a picnic on the journey in Haugh Wood east of Hereford. At 0.10 we see the milk tanker and Penbont where they stayed. 0.25 Mr Thomas and a dog. 0.35 sheep shearing on the farm.
2.08 Mrs Thomas appears 2.14 Penbont with a milk churn, this was the last year that they were collected from small farms. 2.33 Mr Thomas shows his ferret, his dogs Bob and Mot appear. 3.04 the farm chickens, geese and calves. 3.30 Pauline and Richard leave the house 3.40 on the way to and on the Penbryn beach where Richard wields a spade borrowed from the farm to help build a ball-roller.
PJS Scotland 1982
Peter, Pauline and Richard (now 8 ¾) went for a change from Ceredigion to North-West Scotland and enjoyed two weeks of dry fine weather while staying at Allt nan Easan Ban (stream of the white waterfall) facing Loch Ewe at Naast near Poolewe.
0.00 The house sign, the house and Pauline and Richard emerging from the front door.
0.20 The family walks the Glas Leitre nature trail below Beinn Eighe and above Loch Maree (repeated by Richard and Peter in 2022). 0.50 and later views of Loch Maree. 1.44 Broom in bloom. 1.47 shore of the loch and 1.54 views to the loch and mountains.
2.01 Little Sand beach up the coast road from Gairloch past Strath. 2.28. Cinquefoil. 2.40 beach cricket and 3.06 teatime.
3.36 Applecross and the 2000 foot pass Bealach-na-Ba. 3.54 Back home the beautiful cat Whiskers.
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